Stratasys Co-founder Scott Crump Inducted to TCT Hall of Fame

MINNEAPOLIS, MN and REHOVOT, Israel, Sep 29, 2017 – Stratasys, a global leader of applied additive technology solutions, announced that its co-founder and chief technology officer, Scott Crump was inducted to the TCT Hall of Fame, a prestigious award category created to recognize the pioneers and innovators of the 3D printing industry, at the TCT Awards in Birmingham, UK last night.

Renowned voice of the 3D manufacturing technology industry, the TCT Group, inducted Mr. Crump, along with four others at the inaugural awards event, which was held during the 2017 TCT Show, an annual three-day conference and exposition for the rapid technologies industry.

Scott Crump

The Hall of Fame Awards ceremony was held to recognize and celebrate the innovators, technologies and collaborators behind the leading 3D technologies who have helped shape the industry from inception through today. Those chosen were deemed to have made the most significant contributions to 3D technologies and associated applications.

Scott Crump invented the technology known as FDM or Fused Deposition Modeling, patented it 1989, and founded Stratasys, Inc with his wife Lisa. Mr. Crump was CEO of the company for 25 years until the company’s merger with Objet Ltd. in 2012. Crump is currently Chief Innovation Officer, sits on the Stratasys Board of Directors, and is Chairman of the Stratasys Executive Committee.

“I am honored and humbled to be chosen from among the list of prestigious nominees and inducted to the inaugural Hall of Fame awards,” said Mr. Crump. “Each nominee is a pioneer with an illustrious contribution toward building this industry. Although the industry is 30 years old, I believe we’re just at the beginning of a Golden Age of manufacturing, with significant opportunities in production of prototypes, manufacturing tools and end products. There’s enormous potential in applications for aerospace, automotive and healthcare, just to name a few. AM is allowing for the next industrial revolution.”

Stratasys technologies, services and strategic expertise are changing the way everyday objects are imagined, designed, and manufactured. Production parts built on Stratasys 3D printing solutions have found their way into critical applications across the globe and even the heavens, including NASA satellites, ULA rockets, Airbus aircraft, ACIST Medical devices, Volvo factory production tools, McLaren and Penske race cars, and innumerable others.

Hall-of-Fame inductee nominees were first selected by the TCT Expert Advisory Board, themselves experts and innovators from across the globe. The Expert Advisory Board is a panel of 25 rapid technology industry analysts, experts, inventors, material scientists, users, journalists and academics.

The nominees were submitted to TCT magazine readers and the global 3D printing community, who then voted for the five individuals they believed to have made the most significant impact toward either inventing or developing the key technologies that have driven the additive manufacturing industry.

Nominees were:

Scott Crump, Inventor of Fused Deposition Modeling

Phill Dickens, AM researcher, consultant and educator

Carl Deckard, Inventor of Selective Laser Sintering

Hans Langer, Founder of EOS

Fried Vancraen, Founder of Materialise

Graham Tromans, Veteran applications specialist and educator

Adrian Bowyer, Founder of the RepRap Project

Greg Morris, Process pioneer and application specialist

Terry Wohlers, AM consultant, analyst, author and speaker

Chuck Hull, Inventor of Stereolithography

The Hall of Fame inductance took place as part of a larger inaugural TCT Award ceremony, in which awards were presented for the best use of 3D technologies for applications in the following categories:

TCT Aerospace Application Award 2017

TCT Automotive Application Award 2017

TCT Creative Application Award 2017

TCT Healthcare Application Award 2017

TCT Consumer Product Application Award 2017

TCT Industrial Product Application Award 2017

TCT Technology Innovation Hardware Award 2017

TCT Technology Innovation Software Award 2017

TCT Technology Innovation Materials Award 2017

TCT Rising Star Award 2017

British actor and presenter, Robert Llewellyn hosted the 2017 TCT Awards.
For information on the awards, visit the TCT awards website at www.tctawards.com
For information on Stratasys, visit www.stratasys.com.

About Stratasys

Stratasys is a global leader in applied additive technology solutions for industries including Aerospace, Automotive, Healthcare, Consumer Products and Education. For nearly 30 years, a deep and ongoing focus on customers’ business requirements has fueled purposeful innovations—1,200 granted and pending additive technology patents to date—that create new value across product lifecycle processes, from design prototypes to manufacturing tools and final production parts. The Stratasys 3D printing ecosystem of solutions and expertise—advanced materials; software with voxel level control; precise, repeatable and reliable FDM and PolyJet 3D printers; application-based expert services; on-demand parts and industry-defining partnerships—works to ensure seamless integration into each customer’s evolving workflow. Fulfilling the real-world potential of additive, Stratasys delivers breakthrough industry-specific applications that accelerate business processes, optimize value chains and drive business performance improvements for thousands of future-ready leaders around the world.